WOW! That’s a mouthful I know! Hopefully you have either had experience with the program before or maybe these following videos will display a better understanding! This teacher is doing a one-on-one session, but I used the program whole group with about 10-12 students.
Here is the FREEBIE that goes along with the Road to Reading program. It is the dictation paper/journal that we used. Some use blank paper, but my teaching buddy, Ashley Klein, and I liked the idea of having a template to promote neat and quality work!
Wow it is great to find someone else who uses Fundations. 🙂 We use it differently in that every child uses Fundations each day. It can get pretty tiresome and boring for some of my advanced kiddos. Great post!
Sugar and Spice
I really like the Road to Reading examples! I have never heard of this program before. We have Open Court in our district (for over 10 yrs I think) and it is very prescriptive, but not very predictable or consistent. It uses a spiral review approach, but you never know what skill we'll be practicing next. Sometimes it goes from one skill to another in a blink of an eye, and the lower kids get so lost! (For example, the lesson I taught today had rhyming, then beginning sound isolation, then medial sound substitution, and a new beginning sound card introduced! Yowsers! I teach ELL's and I have to really simplify it so it doesn't confuse them!
I like how this program goes through the steps consistently each day. How do you do whole group with step 2 (making the words)? Do you make individual sound boards (it looks like it is something homemade??) or do you do it on a large pocket chart with all students at once?
Hi there and thanks for the comment! In step 2 building the words each student has a white magnetic board and the magnetic letters they need for the day are on the top of the board. I will say the word and they will pull down the letters to make the word. I place the letters on the boards the day ahead, I have heard that some teachers will have the students pull out the letters they will need, we just don't have time for that during Intervention.
Tara
My system uses Fundations also. We use in whole group, small group and in our intervention programs. We think its great for the repetition of it. We do tend to get bored after the meat of the book is complete though.
Kari from TN
I used Fundations for the first time this year! We used it in the resource room setting this year, but next year they are using it in the general ed. classrooms as well. It's nice to find someone who uses it as well!
Ashley
The Resource Room Teacher
Thanks for sharing! I use fundations and was given Road to the Code midyear without any instruction on how to use it. Thank you for your post and freebies! I'm looking forward to your guided reading and whole brain teaching 🙂
Hello everyone. At our school we use Road to the Code, Fundations, and Road to Reading. Road to the Code is the most remedial RTI. It has to do with sounds(phonemes). When you think about it we first learn sound as a child. It works! Then we can move them to Fundations and then Road to Reading. Our school also uses GATE and Read Naturally. We have had success with all of these intervention.
Any thoughts on Accelerated Reader?
How did you make the word board where the child has the consonants at the top, vowels in the middle, and creates the word on the last line? I would appreciate if you could let me know how you made it. Thanks!
Amy,
Those were videos I was sharing. In my classroom we use whiteboards and magnetic letters for Road to Reading! Thanks,
Tara
I love the videos to see them step by step. We use Fundations and Road to the Code. We just started using LLI from Fontas and Pinnell this year. Very explicit.